Euro-Trashing

Updated Feb. 7, 2001 12:08 a.m. ET

By Pete du Pont. This commentary appeared on OpinionJournal.com .

D uring the World War II the British complained that American soldiers were "overpaid, oversexed, and over here." The postwar French were less charitable, complaining about crass Yankees with their Cokes and cowboy boots in French caf&eacute;s. We were the Ugly Americans.

We still are, though for different reasons. Americans favor individualism...